I do believe the life we each live is similar to a large board game that may never end. An unknown entity , releases human forms on the board, we call earth. Once the human is put into play they are guided by parents, teachers, and friends on the trials and tribulations that the game inheritently contains. It isn’t long before the player is left to make decisions on their own and battle the litany of numerous built in obstacles. The choices, along with the many random influences, merge to determine the outcome. There is an on going debate as to how much the hand you are dealt at the beginning of the contest affects your ability to perform during the years you remain in the game. Some players start with good looking cards, yet are unable take advantage of them. While others start the game, seemingly with a bad hand, only to use the weak start to push themselves ahead. The routes and methods you have to choose from are boundless, and for the most part are left up to the contestants. The goal is to arrive at a destination of contentment, of serenity and of fullfillment. To have any chance of getting there the player must experience the hurt that comes with understanding love, the painful defeats that make victory so sweet, the lows that drive you to go so much higher, and all the doubt that must come before finding acceptance. Life is a game that will punish you before you understand why you enjoy playing it so much. The trip to the winners circle is filled with gray areas, naysayers, and judges. If you are fortunate enough to get close to where the victors dwell you must be ready for compromise, apologies and forgiveness. There is no one who, given the choice, picks losing. The eventual winners must use adversity to find opportunity. During the journey you must never accept losing, yet find reasons as to why you have lost. You will make many mistakes along the way, you must recognize them and rapidly make amends. Near the end of the game the monitors will ask you if you belong in the winner’s circle. The voices in your head that have whispered to you for lifetimes will not mince words in regards to your performance.
If you are declared a winner by your own voice, and by the judge, you receive an opportunity for your soul to get a head start in the next life. The spoils to the conquerors is 20 questions that the judges ask you on the transport on your way to the next adventure. The really good players have already studied and our prepared to move on to the next round. The losers will not be given any choices and are dumped back onto the board randomly. Below is a preview of the questions to anticipate if your skill in this lifetime brings you into the winner’s circle: Remember winners, these will be your choices for your soul in the next life.
1. Assuming that the health of yourself and of your loved ones is the top priority. What are you committed to doing this time around to ensure a healthy lifestyle for you and your family?
2. Did you give more than you received in the past life?
3. What was your biggest regret of this lifetime? If you say you have none, you will be placed immediately back into the random draw?
4. Which would you prefer? A very rough childhood followed by a long strong finish, or a storybook youth, with early success and potential, but drop dead at 50?
5. Which do you want? Be born into a wealthy family with a lucrative business, or be a child of two average people that can’t afford to give you the finer things in life?
6. Given another chance, will you do more to reach your full potential?
7. What would you like your passion to be?
8. Would you like to be a man or a woman?
9. What state or country would like to be born in?
10. If you did choose to go college which one would like to earn a degree from?
11. How many children would you like, if any?
12. Choose between fame or anonymity?
13. Name the one person from this life that you would want to be a part of your next life. (excluding immediate family)
14. Pick one experience from your prior life that you want assurance will not happen this trip.
15. Pick one experience from the life you just led that you would want repeated.
16. On a scale of 1-10 how important is your legacy to you in the life you are living currently?
17. Name three adjectives that you will use as a code to live by.
18. Before being transported what is the one confession that you took to the grave, that you feel compelled to say out loud?
19. Money cannot guarantee good health or longevity, but can it buy happiness?
20. Using all your learned knowledge about yourself in this life, what would you want your epitaph to say at the end of your next life?
Hopefully thinking about these questions will inspire you to appreciate, to keep improving, and to keep growing.
Hopefully this questionnaire will help you have a better understanding of the lessons learned and the good and bad choices you made in this lifetime. To understand your past is not to relive it, but to look back and let your history, not bring you down, but instead, help lift you up. There are no right or wrong answers, only personal choices based on one’s experiences and wisdom captured. Answer the questions, use your answers to help you in this life, and prepare yourself to get into the winners’s circle of the next life.
Feel free to answer these questions anonymously below.
